Karan Singh Grover Quotes

But we're still in somewhat a Puritanical society in a lot of ways.

It's a repressive society where you can't be horrible, I'm not horrible, they made me horrible, I'm just honest.

I grew up in a very conservative home.

In Saudi Arabia, they always tell us we are queens. We are pistachios. You know the nut? Like something that is protected. So even if you have a very good education, restraints are put on women.

There are social restrictions where someone could be suppressing someone else's freedom to express themselves.

We're led to believe everybody opposes it and disagrees with political correctness, but yet everybody's scared to death of it. So who is it? Well, it's the power structure wherever you happen to be.

Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.

Persecution is the first law of society because it is always easier to suppress criticism than to meet it.

'1984' is not a wonder tale. Not only could it happen, but it has happened, but under different names.

Social conservatives say who drives the bus.

In Victorian England, people were told they should discourage their wives from reading because it would lead them into all sorts of devilish wickedness.

Religion was used as an ideology, as a system of control. When they forced the veil upon women, they were using it as an instrument of control in the same way that in Mao's China people were wearing Mao jackets and women were not supposed to wear any makeup.

Censors are energetic and righteous people but they just couldn't work a room like Abbe Lane.

In Japan, people don't really sing about sexual content.

I do not like Moscow life. You live here not as you want to live, but as old women want you to.

A functioning police state needs no police.

It is not true that Pena is 20 points above me. It's part of the management of the regime. They have control of the media, with few exceptions.

I was born in ancient times, at the end of the world, in a patriarchal Catholic and conservative family. No wonder that by age five I was a raging feminist - although the term had not reached Chile yet, so nobody knew what the heck was wrong with me.

Numerous politicians have seized absolute power and muzzled the press. Never in history has the press seized absolute power and muzzled the politicians.

You know, women have a history of just being - we've been told all our lives not to say - in the fifties you couldn't say birth or even be pregnant hardly on television - and then gradually things have changed.

The censor boards are mere redundant forces conspiring to keep the 'bold' films out of reach of the audience.

Italy in the 1920s, Germany in the '30s, East Germany in the '50s, Czechoslovakia in the '60s, the Latin American dictatorships in the '70s, China in the '80s and '90s - all dictatorships and would-be dictators target newspapers and journalists.

I felt trapped and fabricated in the fifties living up to other people's expectations.

Only the suppressed word is dangerous.

The American way is to let each family decide what they want in their homes, not somebody in Washington …. Four letter words are acceptable to some families and not acceptable to others.